One Sketch 271) Winter Solstice

Ring out solstice bells
Ring all night
And tonight
Is the longest night of all.
- Bet your arms get tired.

The prompt today was, understandably , winter solstice. My immediate thought was the Jethro Tull song, Ring out, solstice bells, and so I did my best to copy the artwork on one release of the song.

One Sketch 270) (Thursday 20th December) Franz Marc

Horse stamp explosive Earth
Which shatters
then re-forms

On Sketching every day, several times a month the prompt is a featured artist. Yesterday was German artist Franz Marc, killed in the 1916 Battle of Verdun. I will be honest, this early 20th century expressionist style isn't usually my cup of tea, but I look at this, and it looks far more modern than it is - you can certainly see the influence Marc and others had on the development of graphic art throughout the 20th century. This is a copy of a woodcut.